Because America is addicted to cars, and our outdated road designs prioritise speed over safety

and the saddest thing is that he doesn’t actually give a damn about the quality of Ligue 1:

“Even when Bayern have dominated the Bundesliga by similar margins, they at least could regularly count on a world-class foe at home to test their steel every season in the form of Borussia Dortmund.”

he’d be perfectly happy if…

City population and Market Size have only an indirect relationship.

clearly if Ligue 1 just eliminated single entity, adopted pro/rel, and went to a winter schedule, they’d be a powerhouse league in no time.

and that’s why, even though I rarely drive any more, and when I do it’s my beater Camry, I’m quite thankful I live in a state that doesn’t require hideous front license plates.

It’s sort of absurd that despite the butcher’s cleaver BRAC took to bases on the east and west coasts (especially in “blue” states), this country builds oceangoing vessels in fucking Wisconsin.

I remember trying to explain to a coworker the first point. We he was concerned that after qualifying for a special bonus program, he’d be slightly into the next bracket and lose money. I tried to explain to him the way it stepped, but he couldn’t wrap his brain around it.

The scariest thing is that Andy Reid has gotten substantially better at challenges. From an article in 2009:

You know what’s crazy? In most of the US a bar, even one that serves little to no food is required to provide ample parking. We are so addicted to cars that we invite drunk drivers to park directly outside their watering hole.

Volvo 1800s

I have a hunch that pickup truck fetishists also want to “Buy American!” on the truck they’ll mostly use to go to walmart to buy imported merchandise.

I’d probably still get Tacoma*, but that’s because:

Move the Raiders to Portland or Sacramento (largest US markets without an NFL team, other than St. Louis)

No, it was just built at the worst possible time. The 90s saw a dramatic change in the approach to stadium construction. Stadiums built before the shift , such as Jones, the Georgia Dome, BoA, Everbank, Fedex, all tend to be fully wrap-around bowls. Newer stadiums tend to be more angular, with open corners. Newer…

in Europe a CR-V is gigantic. I was in France over the summer, and a colleague from Switzerland picked me up at the hotel. I got in his car chuckling to myself, and he asked what was funny. While I was waiting I realised that a Nissan Juke was the biggest car on the block.

As a Philadelphian and a Flyers fan, I’m in favor of relegation because fuck the sixers.

Yeah, that was hyperbole.

It’s because he doesn’t actually care about having a competitive league that brings soccer to multiple major markets. He wants the Euro model where there’s 2 great teams constantly beating up on a rotating cast of mediocre domestic teams. Basically, if he can jump on a nice safe bandwagon of an “elite” team that…

Brasil is a big country, but most of their soccer teams are on the the southeast coast. Much like the US has the big, mostly empty plains and mountains, Brasil has the Amazon.

college basketball teams have been around for decades, and have very specific ties to communities. If they have a couple of bad recruiting classes, they still have their history, still have other things drawing students to the school